=== Crisco is now known as zz_Crisco [17:31] Hi! [17:31] Is there an admin online? [17:33] hello EricThibault [17:33] Hi [17:33] I would like to join the team :) [17:34] great, we could use a few more active people === UndiFineD changed the topic of #ubuntu-tour to: The Ubuntu Tour Project! | http://ubuntutour.org | Join https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTour/Todo#List | Let's finish the writing ! [17:34] in this topic are all the links [17:34] I'm a 17 years old student, just discovered Ubuntu about 3 months ago, did massive learning on this OS, including Desktop and Server [17:35] Okay, I just read : Send us an email or stop by the #ubuntu-tour channel on irc.freenode.net to ask us a question, introduce yourself, or get to know the other members of the team. [17:35] I thought it was an essential step to join the team [18:53] I'm here [18:53] damn [18:53] he left [19:41] Omega, into assimilation modus ? [19:47] Hmm? [22:11] Hi Muscovy! [22:13] Hello EricThibault. [22:14] I just read the email you sent me [22:14] So, your team is about showing people how Ubuntu can be amazing and used everywhere, right? [22:14] Yep. [22:14] And how do you proceed? [22:15] As in from our current progress? [22:15] Yeah [22:15] We're hoping to finish writing some stuff on Evolution, Firefox, and Rhythmbox, [22:16] then we'll start packaging the tour, and ask people for opinions. [22:16] On how understandable it is, if we've missed topics, etc. [22:16] Let's say I'm a windows standard user, and I don't even know the words Ubuntu, Linux, OpenSource. How will I land on your website, if you have one? How will you try to convince me to leave 30 years of windows utilisation to get on Ubuntu? [22:16] Well, I don't think we're using the website as anything other than a developer portal at the moment. [22:16] By the way, I read that you are an high school student! I just graduated last year, im 17! [22:17] Ah, same age as me. :D [22:17] Are you using a CMS for the website? [22:17] Wait. [22:17] Nope, just from scratch. [22:17] Or it's all javascript, html and css? [22:17] ANd some php. [22:17] I used php for a few ease-of-editing stuff. [22:18] We do hope to have an online version of the tour. [22:18] Because it's pretty basic. I know you don't know me much, but I just completed a DEP in Quebec, Canada, which is, if i translate, Professionnal Studies Diploma, thats almost like college. [22:18] Ah. [22:18] Yeah, the website does need some updates. [22:19] And I'll finish it in 3 days. Since I've started it, i've made 1800hrs, focused on programming, and a bit of networking. [22:19] So i'm pretty good with the web, and did you know that CMS are a lot easier to work with, and give better results in less time? [22:20] I didn't. [22:20] You know what's a CMS? [22:20] I learned this morning actually. [22:20] Content Management System. Those allow you to do like 95% less code. [22:21] And the visual effects are way better [22:21] Would you recommend a particular one? [22:22] As an example, this is one of our school's website. Took like 5 minutes to do + adding the text : http://lepisc.com/intranet/ [22:22] I know it's in french, just for you to see the result! [22:22] I use Chrome, so I translated it. [22:23] Ok, cool [22:23] Yeah, I see what you mean. [22:24] Tell me if you think I'm too fast, I know we don't know each other yet. You could make me a subdomain, I could build up the website, because I have a lot of free time, and then, if you like the result, we can easily switch it to the primary domain [22:24] That or I could give you the code (it's in a bzr branch) and you could do it locally. [22:25] My webhost locks ftp accounts like crazy. [22:25] In the creation of the site we had a lot of issues there. [22:25] Yeah, doing it locally, on a small LAMP server could work pretty well. [22:25] I'd show you the results with some screens [22:26] Just a question! What time are you usually logged on, and what time is it where you live? So I could easily contact you on the IRC channel! [22:28] On weekdays I'm on from about 11:30 PM to 5:00 AM UTC. [22:28] On and off. [22:28] Feel free to email me or the email list too. [22:29] Good [22:29] Where do you live? [22:31] West coast of Canada. [22:31] Im near Montreal! [22:32] Which explains why I'm a frenchie [22:32] Indeed. [22:35] I keep meaning to update the site, so I'll play with it during the next week. [22:35] There's a sync of it here: https://code.launchpad.net/~muscovy/+junk/ubuntu-tour-site [22:35] The sync excludes a few things like the IRC logs. [22:35] What's a branch? [22:35] Oh. [22:35] Ever used something like Git or SVN? [22:35] Sorry, I'm new to launchpad [22:35] Nope [22:36] We use Bzr (Bazaar), a version Control SYstem. [22:36] VCS are systems that intelligently upload/sync project files. [22:36] They deal with merges and so on. [22:37] Ok [22:37] http://ubuntutour.org/contribute/branch/ explains the basics of using it. [22:37] Most the the page stuff it setup. [22:37] thanks, ill check that [23:37] Hi again! [23:38] I have a question! Do you want the website of Ubuntu Tour to be similar to Ubuntu.com, or just a nice sleek finish, with many nice options? [23:41] EricThibault, we're trying to go with the Ubuntu style. [23:41] So it doesn't need to mirror it, but the same conventions would be nice. [23:41] What do you mean by conventions? [23:42] The same general colour schemes and so on. [23:42] http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/ might be useful. [23:46] Is Ubuntu design (like ubuntu.com) open source, because i'd just copy the pictures, and build something really awesome, no wordpress, just with some js and jquery [23:52] I think it is. [23:53] So I can copy the images, and just change the text? [23:54] I believe so.